The agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Turkmenistan on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs affairs

of July 5, 2001

The government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of Turkmenistan which are hereinafter referred to as the Party

wishing to develop friendship including by means of cooperation in the field of customs affairs;

aiming to promote by cooperation of Customs Services to simplification and acceleration of passenger and freight traffic between the Parties;

considering that customs offenses cause damage to economic interests of the states of the Parties;

convinced that observance of the customs legislation and fight against customs offenses can be performed more successfully in case of cooperation of Customs Services of the states of the Parties;

agreed as follows:

Article 1 of Determination

For the purposes of this agreement the applied terms mean:

"customs legislation" - set of regulatory legal acts of the Parties regulating procedure for import, export and transit of goods, hand luggage and baggage of passengers, the international mailings, currency and other values, collection of customs duties, charges and other payments, provision of privileges on customs payments, establishment of prohibitions and restrictions, and also control of movement of goods through customs borders of the states of the Parties;

"customs offense" - violation or attempt of violation of the customs legislation;

"Customs Services" - the central customs authorities of the states of the Parties;

"person" - any physical person or legal entity;

"drugs" - the substances included in lists of the Single Convention of the UN on drugs of 1961 with subsequent changes and amendments and also in lists of the Convention of the UN on fight against drug trafficking of 1988 against subsequent changes and amendments;

"psychotropic substances" - the substances included in lists of the Convention of the UN on psychotropic substances of 1971 with subsequent changes and amendments;

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